The Magistrate's Assistant: Or, A Summary of Those Laws, which Immediately Respect the Conduct of a Justice of the Peace: to the End of the Fifth Session of the Sixteenth Parliament of Great-Britain, Viz. to July 12, 1788. To which are Added, Forms of Warrants, Summonses, and Recognizances; Forms of Conviction and Oaths of Office, and a Compleat Index Or Table of Contents

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R. Raikes, 1788 - Forms (Law) - 544 pages

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Page 496 - THIS INDENTURE made the twenty sixth day of June in the thirtieth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c.
Page 107 - ... to the House of Correction, there to be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding three calendar months...
Page xiii - These are therefore to command you the said constable of to take the said AB, and him safely to convey to the [House of Correction] at aforesaid, and there deliver him to the keeper thereof, together with this precept : And I do hereby command you, the said keeper of the said...
Page 294 - ... writing of the lord of the manor and the major part in value of the persons having right of common thereupon, signified under their hands and seals, any part or portion of such waste or common land not exceeding...
Page 536 - Complaint], and to be further dealt with according to Law. Given under my Hand and Seal, this Day of in the Year of our Lord at in the [ County] aforesaid.
Page 366 - Any officer, non-commissioned officer, or soldier, who, being present at any mutiny or sedition, does not use his utmost endeavor to suppress the same, or, coming to the knowledge...
Page 288 - VI. They can compel the father and grandfather, mother and grandmother, and children of every poor, old, blind, and impotent person, or of any other person not being able to work (provided such father, &c.
Page 260 - Process, being thereof convicted, by the Confession of the Party, or by the Oath of one or more Credible Witness or Witnesses...
Page 520 - ... by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in any of his Majefty's courts of record at Weftminfter...
Page 85 - ... where entry is given by the law, and in such case not with strong hand, nor with multitude of people, but only in a peaceable and easy manner.

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